For newbies its recommended to start off with "Live CD": Its a bootable image of chosen Linux flavour that allows users to get a feel of the software without performing any physical installation on the machine. You can easily get hold of quite a few by goggling term "Live Linux". Some popular one are
1) Ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD
It is highly recommended as it has wider hardware support, it is good as it won't repel you away from Linux just because you are not able to surf internet.
2) Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD
It is a free version of the RedHat Linux series with a 6-8 month of release cycle, is also good but lacks a bit in terms of hardware/media support in comparison with Ubuntu.
There are also some applications that even saves you from investing a CD as well, and just use usb-drive to create a bootable copy of Linux. A good one that I often use is Fedora USB creator https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/.
Just get hold of any one of these and you are ready to have your first taste of the operating system. Oh!! one last thing, make sure you got your boot sequence sorted out from the boot menu.
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